Improvement in skates



niwl" taftw @anni @Wina Letters-PatentNo. 93,114, dated July/.27. 1869.

INIPROYEMENT IN SKATES.

The Schedule referred to n/these Letters Patent and making prt of the same.

To alhwhom 'it may concern.-

Be it knowny that I, JAMES W. NATHAN, of Chicago, Cook county, and State of Illinois, have invented a new and improved Skate; and I do hereby declare that the following is av full and exact descn'ptionthereof, referencebeing had to'thc'accompanying drawings,

and to the letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

Figure 1 represents a rear-end view of my improved skate; and i s Figure 2 represents a side view of the. same.

The nature of my invention consists in providing a skate with a loose heel-piece, loose only so far as vertical and rocking motions are concerned. I fasten the skate to the foot in any of the modes now in use.

The object of the loose heel-piece E is to allow the feet ofthe skater to move With-natural freedom While' skating, at the same time keeping perfect control of the rear end of the skate, without the necessity of binding the-foot so tight as to retard the circulationofthe blood, thus obviatin g a very great evil .cx'pcrienced by all skaters while using the common skate, strapped in the usual mannen The loose piece E is placed astride of thev runner A, as shown in fig. 1, and pins, Dand B, are made fast 1 in the loose' piece E, and passed through slots C and G' in the runner A, as shown. v

Having thus fully described my invention, v

What I` claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent ofthe United-States, is-

Thelmovable heel-platek E, having lugs F F and pins B D,in combinationwith the-slots C C' in the runner A, as and for the purpose set forth.

' J AMES W. NATHAN..

' Witnesses:

O.`D. WOLF, A STEPHEN WILKS.' 

